While energy giants such as BP and Shell celebrate record profit margins, a new study warns that their global climate scenarios fall short of the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to +1.5° above pre-industrial levels. Only the “Net Zero 2050” scenario of the International Energy Agency (IEA) is compatible with this ambition.
This year, this day, which refers to the moment when humanity has consumed all the resources the planet can produce in a year, fell on July 28. Everything we buy and consume from that date onwards contributes to the overexploitation of resources: we are drawing on reserves that cannot be renewed. 55% of these resources are used for food.
The proliferation of jellyfish, which appeared on Earth before trees 650 million years ago, is not a new phenomenon, but according to aquarist Étienne Bourgouin, “today, species are proliferating in places where this was not the case a few years ago”. Like the cannonball jellyfish that disrupted the local economy in the Gulf of Mexico by eating all the shrimp.
A class action lawsuit was filed in a New York federal court on July 22. The plaintiff claims that the Swedish giant is attempting to target the growing segment of environmentally conscious consumers who are willing to pay more for “sustainable” clothing and accessories by ostentatiously incorporating “environmental rating sheets” for its products.
The aviation industry’s commitments focus mainly on carbon offsets, which involve planting trees, restoring wetlands or paying people to preserve ecosystems. A growing body of research concludes that these efforts ignore the fact that most of the effects of aviation on global warming are not due to CO2.
This new global agreement announced by the United Nations in March this year is intended to cover all parts of the plastics value chain, not just the end-of-life stage, despite the reluctance of some countries. In other words, it won’t be enough to develop recycling and energy recovery from waste, we’ll also have to reduce plastic production on a global scale.
Hydraloop is one of the five winners of the first WIPO World Intellectual Property Awards. The competition rewarded solutions focused on economic, social and cultural progress, with an emphasis on intellectual property rights. The start-up offers a solution to an increasingly pressing problem: access to drinking water in many parts of the world.
The new list from the International Union for Conservation of Nature indicates that 41,459 of the 147,517 species listed are threatened with extinction. It also reveals that the tiger population in the wild has increased by 40% since its last assessment in 2015, showing that there are more tigers than previously thought, and that global tiger numbers appear to be stable or increasing.
Roland Feuillas is the founder of Les Maîtres de Mon Moulin, a 100% natural bakery and bread school located in the hills of the Corbières Aude. He has built a virtuous ecosystem where everything is under control, from the ancient wheat seed, multiplied and cultivated by some thirty farmers in France and supported by Roland Feuillas and his team, to the finished bread, shipped or sold at the bakery, right into our stomachs.
Three researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Boston University analyzed the websites of six organizations representing the interests of the British meat industry. In a report published in the journal Food Policy, they identify four strategies used to minimize the health and environmental effects of red and processed meat consumption.
